Database Pioneer Michael Stonebraker to Speak at Strata Conference +
Hadoop World on October 16

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tamr, Inc. today announced that its co-founder and CTO Michael
Stonebraker, Ph.D., will speak at the 2014 Strata Conference + Hadoop
World on Thursday, October 16, on the topic of “Three
Approaches to Scalable Data Curation.” The conference runs October
15-17 at the Javits Center in New York City.

Professor Stonebraker will talk about companies’ “Big Data Variety”
problem: how to integrate the explosion of diverse data sources – from
internal sources to Hadoop “data lakes” and beyond – efficiently for
analytics and downstream applications. He will look at three possible
approaches to scalable data curation and describe the best approach,
based on two case studies: an information services company and a
biopharmaceutical company.

The 40-minute presentation runs from 11:00 to 11:40 AM, in Rooms 1 E20/1
E21. It will be followed at 11:50 AM by an “Office
Hour with Michael Stonebraker," an opportunity to talk
informally with Professor Stonebraker about data curation and
integration.

At the Strata + Hadoop World Expo, Tamr will be demonstrating its data
unification platform for Big Data Variety in Booth #546. In addition,
Tamr's Eliot Knudsen will deliver a lightning talk about the Tamr
solution in the Solutions Showcase Theater on the expo floor on
Thursday, October 16, at 3:15 PM.

About Michael Stonebraker

Michael
Stonebraker has been a pioneer of database research and technology
for more than 40 years. He was the main architect of the INGRES
relational DBMS, the object-relational DBMS, POSTGRES, and the federated
data system, Mariposa. All three prototypes were developed at the
University of California at Berkeley where Stonebraker was a professor
of computer science for 25 years. Since 2001, he has been an adjunct
professor at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory (MIT CSAIL), where he has been involved in the development of
other pioneering technologies. He has founded nine start-ups to
commercialize database technologies, including big data analytics
pioneer Vertica (acquired by HP), VoltDB, Paradigm4 and Tamr. He is also
co-founder and co-director of the Intel
Science and Technology Center for Big Data, which is based at CSAIL.

About Tamr

Tamr,
Inc., unifies and enriches the vast reserves of underutilized
internal and external data, so enterprises can use all their data for
analytics and other downstream applications. Tamr combines machine
learning algorithms with collective human insight to identify sources,
understand relationships and curate the massive variety of siloed data.
Tamr was founded in 2013 by big-data serial entrepreneurs Andy Palmer
and Michael Stonebraker, who previously co-founded Vertica Systems
(acquired by HP); Ihab Ilyas of the University of Waterloo; George
Beskales; Daniel Bruckner; and Alex Pagan. Tamr is backed by more than
$16 million in financing led by Google Ventures and New Enterprise
Associates.